Did they patch the game in the past few days or something?

[IXBlackWolfXI]

I just tried a few games with it myself, got slaughtered by the fire/darkness deck, but besides that, looks pretty good so far. Needs more board control through, yeah it can stop your opponent from playing anything, but you have no way to get rid of any creature he plays on the first 2 or 3 turns. Stoneskin might be a good option, I wonder if you would get double money if you have 100 hp when your maximum is raised with stoneskin? Interesting to see....

edit: just played the water/fire deck that was giving me so many problems, not nearly as good when he can't pump his creatures.

[treebeard xiii]

I wonder if you would get double money if you have 100 hp when your maximum is raised with stoneskin? Interesting to see....

I can say inequivically no you won't get double money but em earns more with raised max health

[iloveashley3]

I just tried a few games with it myself, got slaughtered by the fire/darkness deck, but besides that, looks pretty good so far. Needs more board control through, yeah it can stop your opponent from playing anything, but you have no way to get rid of any creature he plays on the first 2 or 3 turns. Stoneskin might be a good option, I wonder if you would get double money if you have 100 hp when your maximum is raised with stoneskin? Interesting to see....

i can try some different variants of the deck if you like, or... you can take control

[IXBlackWolfXI]

I'd say iridium warden would be the best option for dealing with your opponent's first creatures, a shield may also be a good idea, but for the time being, I think the deck works fine.

[iloveashley3]

I'd say iridium warden would be the best option for dealing with your opponent's first creatures, a shield may also be a good idea, but for the time being, I think the deck works fine.

usually the first creature shouldnt even be a problem, but to good to know its working man. But like i said, id recommend upping the EQ's first, so you can get them out quicker

[IXBlackWolfXI]

Well I just lost to the gravity deck, bc his otyugh kept eating my creatures, I stole his gravity shield, but then he played momentum on his otyugh and there was simply nothing I could do. A basilisk blood could've fixed that (either by making my devourers too big for it to eat, or stop it from attacking for awhile). But hey, I guess you can't be completely invincible, now can you?

edit: oh, and phase spiders are also a huge problem. drain life or iridium guard look to be the best options at this point. I'll make my mind later on, the big issue is what to take out for the new cards....

[iloveashley3]

just tested the deck in bronze and won 4/5 games, with 1 EM and on two of them i finished with 99hp and 96hp, only lost the one becuase i started out with 1 stone pillar.

and... couldnt you just burrow the devourers? instead of iridium wardens you can take out 1 steal and 1 pillar and add in 2 drain lifes for those situations

[IXBlackWolfXI]

Yes, but you can't burrow them until the next turn, for w/e unfathomable reason. When you first play them, they are sitting ducks for any devourers that are already in play, gargoyles are also vulnerable for the same reason. I would use drain life to deal with otyugh with my mono-dark deck, even if it didn't kill it reducing it to 1 hp was enough to render it useless.

edit: and by 'devourer', i meant creatures with the devour skill.

[iloveashley3]

Yes, but you can't burrow them until the next turn, for w/e unfathomable reason. When you first play them, they are sitting ducks for any devourers that are already in play, gargoyles are also vulnerable for the same reason. I would use drain life to deal with otyugh with my mono-dark deck, even if it didn't kill it reducing it to 1 hp was enough to render it useless.

edit: and by 'devourer', i meant creatures with the devour skill.

add in and take out what i suggested above and see if that works, but anyway, gargoyles should be okay against unupped otys anyway as they both have 3 hp. the only problem would be if the oty was buffed (blessing, momentem, etc)

[IXBlackWolfXI]

Added in the drain lifes (after I had one game where I drew too many steals). Has worked quite well. Haven't really needed them yet, but they have allowed me to end several games at full health, which is always nice.

Sadly the game appears to be going down for maintenance, so I may not be playing anymore today. Thanks for your help. Now if only I could learn to design my own decks...

[iloveashley3]

kongregate might me going down for maintenance, but you can always play the game at "elementsthegame.com"

and thank you, im not great either, i just submitted my own little version of a deck to deck help.

[Dm]

Since no one has yet.
Pandemonium does not.
Did not.
WILL NOT.

Hit burrowed or immaterial creatures.

That, and all the other problems I have with every single one of your post that I will not enter in detail now as I will read the remainder of this thread, first.

Also, care to explain this:

Often I'm forced to use my drain lifes on stuff like wyrms and fire spirits before it gets its steam engines out (and according to the internet that deck runs 5 of those damned things).

It's a fire/water deck. How the hell did it play  wyrms?